Cabaye sours Sam mood

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Cabaye sours Sam mood

Just seven days after West Ham’s victory at Cardiff had them mentally preparing an open-top bus parade to celebrate Premier League survival, Sam Allardyce was bemoaning being ‘mugged’ twice in two days.

The first ‘assault’ came on Friday when Allardyce learned that Lacina Traore decided Everton was preferable to east London, despite the hard work West Ham put in to sign the Ivory Coast striker from Monaco.

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